Schneid

Schneid stands for a Scandinavian way of thinking: Our designs have formal purity, functionality and a minimalist approach. The ideas to our products and objects come in a very natural way and are mainly due to our feelings of aesthetics, proportions and shapes. However we feel that it is necessary to consider the meaning and purpose of new developments with regard to function and sustainability. By material experiments and by taking materials out of their usual context, we try to find new solutions and possibilities for their use. Therefore our work can be understood as a result of a designing process that embraces an aestetic approach as well a conceptual development with an experimental basis.

We believe that it is important to rethink our profession as designers and to become aware of our responsibility by developing new products and by introducing them into the market. Accordingly our projects are driven by the attempt to create lightings and furniture that are sustainable and high-quality with the potential of a longer life and a reason for their existance.

As a result of this spirit and by virtue of our personal background, we consider ourselves as a new type of design studio that is able to work more indepentently by managing the whole manufacturing process of our ideas. Even if it becomes more and more difficult to produce regionally, we try to find high quality manufacturer in our surroundings. In order to archieve a good communication and cooperation with our partners we emphasize a direct and personal contact. By means of visiting the premises of our potential partners, we can experience working possibilities, conditions of employment and the quality of their manufacture. This personal contact is a signifant element of our projects which fully meet the complex requirements of a crafted product.